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Neighbors helping neighbors—to break into vacant houses
By: Madeleine Baran
TC Daily Planet
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2009/02/13/neighbors-helping-neighb...

Poverty rights activists broke into at least a dozen vacant Minneapolis buildings this week and helped homeless families move in.

“This is the modern underground railroad,” said Cheri Honkala, National Organizer for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, the group organizing the “takeovers.”

Hundreds of marchers took back the night in Uptown on Thursday January 29th, braving zero-degree temperatures to take a stand against homophobia and hate. Marchers packed the parking lot next to the Dunn Bros. in Uptown, listening to speakers condemn violence against queer women. The march looped around Uptown, dispersing around 10pm without interference from the police.

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Philippine social movements hit G-20 summit’s exclusivity, call for a new and democratic world order

Manila, Philippines – A thousand protesters marched to the United States Embassy today to denounce the formal opening of the G-20 summit called by US President George W. Bush in Washington D.C to supposedly resolve the ongoing global financial crisis. The big demonstration, which is part of the Global Day of Action against the G-20 Summit, branded the gathering as an “elite jamboree” that has the sole objective of “resurrecting a dead and flawed development paradigm.”

The workers of America and the world should not expect changes in their favor from the government, the capitalist crisis which commenced last year will get worse and last much longer, with serious consequences for workers. Perhaps slowly, but inexorably, it increases and continues to increase the intensity of exploitation, the number of unemployed, to lower real wages.The crises of overproduction - not overproduction in relation to the needs of the population, but to the market - are a congenital phenomenon of capitalism.